It felt odd — curious — that in the space of 24 hours Alice in Wonderland author Lewis Carroll (aka Charles Dodgson) was injected into my head twice — first on HBO, and then again at the Grove.
Last Sunday night a passage from Alice was heard in episode #3 of Westworld. Jeffrey Wright asked Evan Rachel Wood to read an observation of Alice’s, one that not only hinted at a certain awakening but echoed what Wood’s “host” character, Dolores Abernathy, is starting to experience.
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Author Charles Dodgson, whose pen name was Lewis Carroll.
And then Carroll reappeared the following night (Monday) when I paid to see Gavin O’Connor‘s The Accountant. Cynthia Addai-Robinson‘s Treasury Dept. analyst is exploring Ben Affleck‘s autism/Asperger’s affliction online, and she spends a half-minute looking into Carroll’s alleged experience with a similar condition.
It was enough to make me want to see The Secret Side of Lewis Carroll, a BBC2 documentary that aired last year and which asserted that while Carroll may have fit the profile of a gentle, well-behaved pedophile, he didn’t actually descend into that pit.
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